Metal Wolf Chaos Translation

Ok, so I've been playing Metal Wolf Chaos, a really damn fun game, Problem is most of it is in Japanese. Now its simple enough that I understand the game enough to play it.

But hey, I like a challenge and I'm never happy unless I'm messing with stuff, so I figured I'd try and do a small scale translation on it. Just some menu options and stuff so its a little easier to navigate and understand what the hell is going on sometimes.

The main issue here is I have no friggin clue where to start.

So heres my main questions:Where are game text files usually stored (file types)What tools exist to extract these files?Anything like this exist for other games?Anything I should know before I start this?

Utter newbie to modding really. But I'm willing to learn and I want to give something back.

Welp. I guess I'll just post what I have and hope that someone can help me based on that

I've identified 3 main file times for the game, TEX, MSG and DDS. Through some research if ound TEX and DDS are mostly textures, images and that kind of thing, leaving MSG the only thing remaining.

Now the issue here is when I try opening MSG with a text reader, I get some japanese stuff, which is a good sign, but its mostly garbled mess. Presumably because word wasnt meant to be doing this kind of thing.

Just had another poke. when i look at it in a different format or two it makes a bit more sense, at least in some of the files. I'm gonna test something and post back.

E: That didnt work, heh. I can change text no problem but the game can't load the file afterwards leading to a crash. I get a feeling its an issue with saving the file that does it. Gonna keep trying and see if I can find a solution

MRB stands for Multiple Resolution Bitmap. It is a bitmap image file which contains many resolutions of an image. It cannot be opened in windows. It is unreadable for the imaging tools. This format is used by Microsoft C/C++ tool. http://www.fileinfo.com/extension/mrbhttp://www.fileinfo.com/extension/dds shows some programs that can open it maybe one can save it as one worth a try? I hope i didn't make a fool of myself and hope to see you continue.

Why Am I the only one commenting? this is pretty big stuff guys show some support

MRB stands for Multiple Resolution Bitmap. It is a bitmap image file which contains many resolutions of an image. It cannot be opened in windows. It is unreadable for the imaging tools. This format is used by Microsoft C/C++ tool. http://www.fileinfo.com/extension/mrbhttp://www.fileinfo.com/extension/dds shows some programs that can open it maybe one can save it as one worth a try? I hope i didn't make a fool of myself and hope to see you continue.

Why Am I the only one commenting? this is pretty big stuff guys show some support

Thanks for the info buddy but I've actually worked this part out already! haha. I also worked out TEX files. Hold On I'll post some videos I've been making of the progress in this;http://www.youtube.c...ot?feature=mhumJust if you want to keep up to date. I do and find out so much crap in one day a post I made ends up being completely irrelevant by the time anyone sees it haha. Not to say I don't appreciate the effort and support though buddy.

Currently I've resigned myself to the fact that editing the Mission results page is gonna be nigh on impossible. the TEX files which seem to contain the relevent info basically are uneditable. maybe I'll have luck with the MRBs but I've yet to find something that can actually open them properly. And the ones that can open them say they arn't valid files so, who knows.

Some interesting stuff I found out I've posted in a blog I made for this project http://mwctranslate.blogspot.com/ Some little tidbits like "What the hell, why is there like, 3 files completely dedicated to Otogi items and menus" to "Is this an unused weapon image?"

I think people arnt commenting cause of a combintion of two things - A) These people see hundreds of threads like this that fizzle out into nothing and never see any good come of it and MWC is a pretty unknown niche game I guess. I just hope through the blog and vids, even if I burn out people will know enough to finish it themselves. Thats not me saying I will burn out, just making sure I show my work!

I guess a quick status update for now would be good, Stuff I have Translated already:90% of menus100% of in mission text (besides some image based popup things that I have someone working on)100% of pistol description text100% of shotgun description text100% of machine gun textlike 5% of the story textAnd a couple other things here and there.To Do:Finish weaponsFinish what story stuff I aim to doFinish menusNot Gonna DoSubtitlesResults page (unless I have a breakthough, at which point hells yes I'll do this)

Excellent work on the translation really looking forward to your releaseI know that their are threads like this all the time but your actually making progress on something unlike the other idiots who simply request someone else do all the work for them. Even if it is an obscure game people should recognize progress and at least show some support for any breaking xbox 1 developments I guess A600 is getting all the glory(though he does deserve it) . Just things can seem pretty dead here with the exception of mainly surreal64once again thanks for your great work half a translation is better than nothing . I'll continue to follow and try to help as best I can